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Melanie Turner

Yorkshire & Humber Outstanding Learner of the Year

Melanie first attended Hull Adult Education in 2007 with an adult literacy class after being agoraphobic for 13 years. For the first three months of the course, her husband waited in the car outside the class to support Melanie’s efforts to change her life.

As the mother of three children, two with disabilities, Melanie went on to do the in-house volunteer training and started to  volunteer with a class for adults with learning difficulties and disabilities. Melanie passed her NVQ Level 1 in learning support last year and also started her PTTLS (Preparing to Teach in the Lifelong Learning Sector) qualification.

Melanie has grown so much in confidence, self-esteem and personality, and has also lost 6 stone! Her tutor says: 'Melanie has realised how much she does have to offer and would like to become a tutor.' Melanie says 'I hope that I can be as inspiring as many of the tutors who have tutored and supported me. There is no stopping me now. I have gone from nothing to gaining a new life all because I returned to learning.'

Yorkshire & Humber Adult Learners' Week is coordinated by Involve Yorkshire & Humber. Adult Learners' Week Awards are a fantastic opportunity to celebrate the life-changing learning done by people in communities all over Yorkshire and Humber, and the central role of the voluntary and community sector in supporting learning.

'I hope that I can be as inspiring as many of the tutors who have tutored and supported me. There is no stopping me now. I have gone from nothing to gaining a new life all because I returned to learning.'

Nominated by
Lisa Garfitt
The Freedom Centre, Hull Adult Education Centre